tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386591112753293896.post3745777733179859826..comments2024-01-17T16:29:35.546-05:00Comments on Through the Hourglass: Stanley Fox with English SparrowsClaudia Keenanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302390896762308490noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386591112753293896.post-30472862508918792072017-05-31T14:10:54.675-04:002017-05-31T14:10:54.675-04:00One thing that is generally lost to history is an ... One thing that is generally lost to history is an awareness of what real, daily life was for a poor or working class person in New York (indeed the world). That drawing of a prison van discharging at the Tombs -- can you imagine what prison conditions would have been like back then? I'm reading Devid McCullough's 1776 and his description of typical revolutionary war soldier -- oh my God, they would wash their clothes unless women did it. And the drinking! All day long, all the time. And then to think that our great great great grandparents lived just like everybody else -- it's all very unreal.<br />The extinction of the passenger pigeon -- like the near extinction of the bison, still remains genuinely shocking to me.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17173711110500689117noreply@blogger.com